Francesc Alted Resumé

Experience

PyTables

Software developer & consultant May 2008 - Today

Continue the work on designing and programming PyTables. Offering consulting and programming services in the field of management of large amounts of data and indexing engines.

Cárabos Cooperativa Valenciana

Executive Director April 2005 - April 2008

Working full-time for this company providing value-added software services for dealing with very large datasets with PyTables and others.

University Jaume I

Assistant professor (Physics) March 2003 - September 2005

PyTables

Software developer Aug 2002 - March 2005

Designing and programming PyTables, a hierarchical database for scientific purposes. Offering consulting and programming services in the field of management of large amounts of data.

OpenLC

Software developer Jun 2001 - Jun 2002

Designing and programming a new benchmark tool to test performance of a broad range of IT (Information Technology) services, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, LDAP,...

Servicom2000

System architect May 2000 - May 2001
- Responsible for Servicom2000 IT systems. Lead team of system administrators and developers to set-up and maintain the servers for the Servicom2000 ISP services. Execution of consulting services in IT systems for clients.
Technical director Jan 1999 - May 2000
- Responsible of the technical department. My main work was to plan and coordinate the set-up and management for the Servicom2000 ISP and communications facilities. Making of technical proposals for different products, like IT services, Internet connectivity, security, database applications and e-commerce.

Servicom (Valencia branch office)

Technical director Aug 1996 - Jan 1999

Lead team of people to create and operate the branch office infrastructure for the Servicom ISP, one of the biggest in Spain (then acquired by Retevision). Responsible for modeling a new product (color boxes) with integrated security, Intranet and Extranet services. Responsible for the project proposals to customers in areas like Internet connectivity (Cisco routers/Frame-Relay/ISDN, Linux/ISDN), security (Firewall-1, Gauntlet) and e-commerce applications (Perl, mSQL, mySQL, Java, Oracle, ...).

Universitat Jaume I

Scientific computing analyst Sep 1991 - Jul 1996

Responsible to establish the conditions for the public concurrence process in selecting the university general scientific computing facilities. Responsibility to select and execute the adequate benchmarks for the scientific community needs. Installation and management for libraries and programs in the scientific computer field. User support for compilers, debuggers, 3D visualization systems, computational tools (Mathematica), documentation systems (LaTeX). Scientific computing system administration. Experience with SGI (Power Challenge L and XL, Indigo workstations), HP-UX (cluster of 14 HP 730) and IBM (390, 590 models).

IFIC - Institut de Física Corpuscular (Universitat de València - CSIC)

System administrator assistant for the computer center Jan 1991 - Jul 1991
- Installation and management of scientific computing software and libraries in VMS (Digital) environments. User support for this tools. Programmer for some system utilities (logout users after some time of inactivity, filters for Postscript printers, ...). Assistance to the system administrator in labors like upgrading operating system in computer facilities, establishing backup policies, etc.
Research fellowship holder Jan 1989- Dec 1990
- Participation in the research project "Collaboration in the DELPHI experiment in the colliding ring e+e- (LEP) of CERN". My task was mainly to help with the set-up of the data acquisition system for the ToF (Time of Flight) detector in DELPHI.

University Jaume I (Castelló)

PhD student in Mathematical Methods 1996 - 2002
- Thesis name "Application of the simplectic integrators to the study of Hamiltonian systems". Thesis advisor: Prof. F. Casas. Unconcluded.
Master of Science in Mathematical Methods May 2002
- This is an official recognition for the PhD courses followed and research trajectory.

University of València

PhD Student at IFIC ("Institut de Física Corpuscular") in València Jan 1989 - Dec 1990
- Spent one year and half at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) working in the ToF (DELPHI experience) detector data acquisition system. Read "Tesi de Llicenciatura" named "The Data Acquisition System of the Time of Flight (ToF) Detector of DELPHI" in June 1990.
Master of Science in “Electronics and Computer Sciences” and “Theoretical Physics” 1982 - 1988
- Concluded both branches of Master level Physics studies.

"Processing and Analyzing Extremely Large Amounts of Data" (paper version). Presented at the PyCon 2003 conference, held in Washington DC, from 26th to 28th of March, 2003.
"Implementació optimitzada del paquet de química computacional Mopac 93 sobre arquitectures RISC" . November 1994.
"Informe per al reemplaçament de la potència de càlcul de la Universitat Jaume I" . May 1994.
More than 20 articles in several scientific reviews, like “Physics Letters B”, “Nuclear Physics”, “Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods” and “Zeit. fur Physik”. Years 1990 and 1991.

Systems administration. Years of experience with Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, Irix, and AIX. Used to NFS and SAN (Storage Area Network) environments. Experience with SMP (Symmetric multiprocessor) machines.
Years of experience in scientific computing management. Installing and maintaining NQS, PVM, MPI, scientific packages and libraries (BLAS, LAPACK, ESSL, Mathematica, Gaussian, MOPAC, ...) in university scenarios.
Large experience with IT system architecture designs, like SMTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, WEB, FTP, DNS, Instant Messaging, authentication servers, proxy-cache under UNIX systems.
Deep knowledge in designing and setting-up security systems, like TIS, Firewall-1, IP-chains, SOCKS, ...
Years of experience leading and managing working groups in IT technologies.
Lately, I have spent more than seven years working in software projects written mainly in Python and C. In them, the use of libraries for doing intensive I/O for general purposes has been stressed, as well as the design of innovative indexing systems ;-). Several optimization techniques for both Python and C has also been extensively exercised in those projects.

Cosmology and astrophysics, mountain trekking, basketball, cinema, literature.

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